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Ever since Ronald Reagan took office last January, relations between the U.S. and China have been as rocky as a Himalayan footpath. The Chinese are still smarting from his pro-Taiwan statements made during the presidential campaign, and suspect that he will tilt U.S. policy toward Taipei. Stopping in Hong Kong last week, on his way to three days of talks with Chinese leaders in Peking, Secretary of State Alexander Haig admitted that the purpose of his trip was "to clear the air with respect to President Reagan's policies in this region...
Among his many other little pleasures are playing a middling game of tennis and jogging up to a mile and a half along the Potomac footpath three times a week at 6:30 a.m. He also reads voraciously and fast. Recently he has consumed the biography of Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, Menachem Begin's autobiographical White Knights and Jules Witcover's Marathon, the story of Jimmy Carter's pursuit of the presidency. Says Blumenthal: "I wanted to see how they got together...
...classes are held in a school-house on a hill above Nova Friburgo. The road to the school stops just beyond the door and turns into a footpath that leads up the hill to the shantytown that is home for most of the Mobral students. There are three classrooms, and at night about 80 students crowd onto the two-man benches to learn to read under four naked light bulbs dangling from the ceiling. They are working people, as their rough hands and faded clothes attest. They are clearly still not used to handling a pencil; they clutch them...
...rather a palpable feeling of unease and fear that made it easy to persuade people not to see what they were looking at, not to hear what was said -in short, not to interfere. That atmosphere hung heavy at Dinh Binh, a tiny hamlet two miles down a mud footpath from the nearest village big enough to have a helicopter pad. At high noon, clusters of Vietnamese stood idly between the Catholic church and the school that housed the polling stations. Why was no one voting? "It's lunchtime," a national policeman explained. Reminded that the polls were...
...civil disobedience, Terence was first arrested (and fined ?1) for "blocking a footpath" during a 1960 peace march in London. In 1963, while trying to register Negro voters in Mississippi, he was arrested for loitering and littering, but the charges were not pressed. He joined CORE in San Francisco, helped organize the New Leftist W.E.B. DuBois Club, was arrested six more times for protests at business establishments that allegedly discriminated against Negroes. For twice refusing to leave a Cadillac agency, he was convicted on charges ranging from unlawful assembly to unlawful entry...